University alerted by FBI in November 2014 18,000 whose SSN were on server being notified First attack may have occurred in September 2012 NBC reports: The engineering school at Penn State was the target of two sophisticated hacking attacks, one of which cybersecurity experts say originated in China, the university announced on Friday. While the university…
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Naikon Hackers Take Aim At Asia-Pacific Nations, Warns Kaspersky
Tom Jowitt reports: Security specialists Kaspersky Lab has warned of an active hacker collective that goes by the name of Naikon and is targeting a number of countries in the South China Sea area. The group has apparently infiltrated a number of government, civil and military organisations in countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam,…
Hackers attack Bundestag data
The Local reports: A Bundestag (German parliament) official on Friday confirmed media reports about a hacking attack on the institution. “There has been an attack on the IT systems of the Bundestag,” spokesman Ernst Habeker said in Berlin. Experts from the Bundestag administration and the Government Office for Information Technology Security (BSI) are working to…
How the Washington Post was hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (again)
Graham Cluley reports: The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have successfully scalped another high profile media outlet, briefly hijacking the mobile version of the Washington Post website to display pop-up messages claiming that the media is not telling the truth. […] In this latest incident, as Motherboard reports, the hackers claim that they broke into systems belonging to Instart…
Mobile Spy Software Maker mSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked
Brian Krebs reports: mSpy, the makers of a dubious software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than two million people spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, appears to have been massively hacked. Last week, a huge trove of data apparently stolen from the company’s servers was posted on the Deep Web,…
Report: Chinese Breach of USIS Started with SAP
InfoSecurity reports: Last fall, it came to light that Chinese hackers had roamed around unnoticed for months inside the network of USIS, the biggest commercial provider of background investigations to the federal US government. In fact, two of the company’s biggest customers are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)….